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Cook Up Healthy Solutions with Biogas Stoves
This gift allows you to purchase a biogas stove for one of our project families, or you can show your generosity by buying 20 stoves — enough for an entire village.
Your gift of a bi...

In the village of El Mezcalito in Honduras, Bernadina Vasquez Calix, 51, prepares to cook a meal on her family's biogas stove. Photo: Russell Powell.
Biogas Stoves
Smokeless Stoves Allow Cleaner Cooking
By using manure to make fuel, Heifer farmers are able to stop cutting forests for firewood. The stoves sa...

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Ten-year-old Biasa works the family stove, which operates on biogas.
Participants in Heifer Uganda’s biogas project turn animal waste into energy, which lights homes and powers stoves. The benefits of biogas are many, including improved family health, less c...

Raise your hand if you love biogas! (Both my hands are raised, you can be sure.) I was directed to this video by a colleague recently, and it's a great example of Heifer's biogas efforts in Africa, how Heifer's work enables fami...

... dairy cows, rabbits, fish and pigs. I had the pleasure of touring their farm this week (see video above) in visits to our projects in Uganda and later in Ghana.
The family of seven also has a biogas unit, which has eliminated the need for firewood. Bio-slurry, a nutrient-rich byproduct of the biogas digester, has reduced their spending on animal feed and fertilizer by 50 percent. The slurr...

Participants in Heifer Ugandas biogas project turn animal waste into energy, which lights their homes and powers stoves. Africa Area Vice President Elizabeth Bintliff shares more about this sustainable energy alternative. Now is...

... blames smoke exposure from those stoves and fires for 2 million premature deaths a year. Heifer International helps families transition away from these dangerous, labor-intensive systems to biogas stoves and other technologies that cut the heath risks and environmental degradation that come with the inefficient burning of wood and other biofuels. Additionally, biogas stoves are fueled ...

From my trip to Uganda, I was able to see firsthand why biogas is so important in poor rural communities. So far, I've shown you why it's important for women and for the environment. Now, I'd like to show you why it's important for rural children.
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...hird-world problems over the years. Now, one project has received a Best Practices and Innovations award from InterAction, a coalition of nonprofits focused on development.
Heifers Uganda biogas project eases the workload of rural women and improves their health by providing a safe, renewable and cheap source of fuel  a fuel thats much cleaner than firewood. The technique uses catt...

...g firewood usually falls on women and girls. The time they spend at this chore could be better spent caring for their families or pursuing an education.
But thanks to an ingenious thing called biogas, this is starting to change. Through a relatively-simple process, Heifer's project participants can capture methane gas (a byproduct of livestock manure) and use it to power stoves, lanterns an...